Sun to Deliver Open Source Solutions for the Israeli Ministry of Education?

Paz Weisman reported (in Hebrew) that the Israeli Ministry of Education and Sun Microsystems signed a 3 year contract between them.
Speculations are that Sun is planned to deliver Open Source computing solutions, including support and implementation for Open Office and Linux on a few thousand computers during the first phase. Sun will also assist in […]

Is OpenOffice.org.il Dead?

Bad news reported, by Adar Shalev and Ehud Keinan (in Hebrew), in the popular Israeli news site Ynet.
The current support that the Hebrew version of OpenOffice is getting from the Israeli Ministry of Finance ends this month. As a consequence, the company currently maintaining OpenOffice.org.il, TK Open Systems Ltd., announced yesterday that the project is […]

Mandriva Israel is Officialy Launching

Mandriva Israel, although operating since 2007, will officially launch on February 28th 2008.
Lets hope this with improve the Linux efforts in Israeli Schools.

Open Source and Open Access Advocates

Amy S. Quinn tipped me about a list of 80 Open Source and Open Access advocates.
Not all of the members of the list are exactly charities like the headline suggests, but still it is a useful resource.

Google Highly Open Participation Contest?

Very nice, Google announced a program to promote Open Source with secondary and high-school students.
Read more (TechCrunch)

Linux For Every Child

A new project was announced in Israel, “Linux For Every Child” or “LLI” (LLI is an abbreviation of the Hebrew name).
As part of the project, volunteers will be providing working computers installed with Linux to schools, clubs, hospitals, boarding schools and other organizations where computing services can be supplied to children.
Read more (in Hebrew).

The Israeli 2007 Welcome to Linux Series

The Israeli open source community is proud to announce the beginning of the series of presentations for Linux beginners. The lectures will cover basic topics in Linux in order to provide Linux home-use beginners with the necessary background. This year the series will take place in four centers: the Haifa Linux Club at the […]

One small step…

Yesterday I wrote a post on the Ministry of Education in Israel and their lack of support for Open Source.
Today we are updated that several members of the Open Source community in Israel contacted the person in charge of the tender requiring MS Internet Explorer support (in Hebrew), and the Ministry of Education has expressed […]

Open Source in Israeli Schools

The very popular news site ynet.co.il ran an article about Open Source penetration in Israeli schools (in Hebrew).
Since most of you do not read Hebrew I will try to summarize the main points of the article:
Even though the Israeli Ministry of Education puts much emphasis on Microsoft products (i.e. Teaching Excel as part of the […]